Manipura/Solar Plexus Chakra/Yellow
Colors: yellow, gold Sanskrit: Manipura “jewel” Sounds: Ram, musical note E Signs: Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Aquarius Metals, Stones: gold, citrine, blue kyanite, peridot, pyrite, yellow topaz,...
View ArticleLove (Yourself) Songs
My kids sometimes ask what songs we’re listening to are about. As a yoga teacher in a studio where we play a little of everything but a lot of top 40-type songs, I make playlists fairly often and test...
View ArticleThe Blessedly Bored
How lucky are we? We are blessed with boredom. And it’s about time we see it for what it is. Boredom has long had a stigma attached to it – you know the saying about idle hands and the devil’s workshop...
View ArticleFight the Good Fight?
We live in a culture obsessed with conquering…defeating the enemy…rising victoriously to the top of the heap. I love the invigoration of a motivational message, song, experience, or movie…but life is...
View ArticleSyncing with the Universe
“You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.” ~Sharon Gannon Love that quote. Spot on....
View ArticleA Little More on Mars Direct…
Mars in Libra went direct yesterday after being retrograde from March 1, 2014-May 19, 2014. Mars is the ruler of Aries, the ancient Roman god of war, anger, lust, and drive. While retrograde, we saw a...
View ArticleCalling All Dreamers: Neptune & Mercury in Retrograde
Neptune in Pisces went retrograde Monday, 6/9, at 3:49pm EDT, and will remain so all summer and most of fall until 11/15/2014. Retrograde simply means that a planet’s direction appears to reverse, but...
View ArticleQuiet Review
This summer I read the book Quiet by Susan Cain. It has appeared on the NY Times Best Seller List and is sold at Target, so there’s a good chance a few of you have read it, too, or at least heard of...
View ArticleNothing but the Truth
I recently posted this picture on LeoMoonRising.com’s Facebook page: It has been several days and I am still laughing every time I think of it – it’s right up there with a favorite joke of mine: A...
View ArticleSound Familiar?
They live a lifestyle with which you disagree. You think what they do is wrong, unnatural, in league with the devil, and against your religion. You’ve heard stories of their predatory ways and want...
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